Appeals to ethics or credibility

Questions that don't require answers

When a speaker or writer expresses ideas of EQUAL worth with the same grammatical form

An indirect reference to a person, place, event, or literary work with which the author believes the reader will be familiar

Repeating a point to tell the audience that it is especially important

A pressing problem or urgent situation that prompts a writer to create a text

Word choice and use of words/phrases

Arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences

When you say something and mean the opposite/something different

When the audience of a drama, play, movie, etc. knows something that the character doesn't and would be surprised to find out

When the outcome of a situation is the opposite of what was expected, creating a surprising or contradictory event

The literal, explicit meaning of a word, without its connotations

The associations suggested by a word- implied meaning rather than literal meaning

1. Language or dialect of a particular country 2. Language or dialect of a regional clan or group 3. Plain everyday speech

The atmosphere created by the literature and mainly accomplished through word choice (diction)

Placing things (ideas) side by side for the purposes of comparison

When a writer creates a list of items which are all separated by conjunctions

A word that reveals a critical attitude toward some element of life to a humorous effect. It targets human vices and follies, or social institutions and conventions

The subject of the sentence performs the action (Bob drove the car)

The subject of the sentence receives the action (The car was driven by Bob)

Making an implied comparison, not using "like" or "as"

When you repeat the same metaphor multiple time in a piece of writing

Giving human-like qualities to something that is not human

Art or literature characterized by an idealistic, perhaps unrealistic view of people and the world, and an emphasis on nature. Does not rely on traditional themed and structures

Anything that represents or stands for something else

A description involving a crossing of the senses

A writer's attitude toward their subject matter revealed through diction, figurative language, and organization

A philosophy, religion, and literary movement that relies on the intuition or conscience in the search for inspiration and truth (6 major characteristics)

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AP EL. Final

AP English Language Terms for Junior Year Final

Term	Definition
Ethos	Appeals to ethics or credibility
Pathos	Appeals to emotions
Logos	Appeals to logic or reason
Rhetorical Questions	Questions that don't require answers
Parallel Structure	When a speaker or writer expresses ideas of EQUAL worth with the same grammatical form
Allusion	An indirect reference to a person, place, event, or literary work with which the author believes the reader will be familiar
Repetition	Repeating a point to tell the audience that it is especially important
Exigence	A pressing problem or urgent situation that prompts a writer to create a text
Diction	Word choice and use of words/phrases
Syntax	Arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences
Verbal Irony	When you say something and mean the opposite/something different
Dramatic Irony	When the audience of a drama, play, movie, etc. knows something that the character doesn't and would be surprised to find out
Situational Irony	When the outcome of a situation is the opposite of what was expected, creating a surprising or contradictory event
Denotation	The literal, explicit meaning of a word, without its connotations
Connotation	The associations suggested by a word- implied meaning rather than literal meaning
Vernacular	1. Language or dialect of a particular country 2. Language or dialect of a regional clan or group 3. Plain everyday speech
Mood	The atmosphere created by the literature and mainly accomplished through word choice (diction)
Juxtaposition	Placing things (ideas) side by side for the purposes of comparison
Polysyndeton	When a writer creates a list of items which are all separated by conjunctions
Satire	A word that reveals a critical attitude toward some element of life to a humorous effect. It targets human vices and follies, or social institutions and conventions
Active Voice	The subject of the sentence performs the action (Bob drove the car)
Passive Voice	The subject of the sentence receives the action (The car was driven by Bob)
Hyperbole	Extreme exaggeration
Metaphor	Making an implied comparison, not using "like" or "as"
Extended Metaphor	When you repeat the same metaphor multiple time in a piece of writing
Personification	Giving human-like qualities to something that is not human
Romanticism	Art or literature characterized by an idealistic, perhaps unrealistic view of people and the world, and an emphasis on nature. Does not rely on traditional themed and structures
Symbol	Anything that represents or stands for something else
Synesthesia	A description involving a crossing of the senses
Tone	A writer's attitude toward their subject matter revealed through diction, figurative language, and organization
Transcendentalism	A philosophy, religion, and literary movement that relies on the intuition or conscience in the search for inspiration and truth (6 major characteristics)

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